Police investigators walk in front of the school entrance after a shooting incident at a high school compound in Tacloban City, Leyte province on June 22, 2026.
At least three teenage students were killed and five others wounded on Monday in a rare school shooting in the central Philippines, police said.
The two alleged shooters, aged 15 and 14, had fired "randomly" inside the school, police Lieutenant Evalyn Diaz told AFP of the incident, which took place at around 9 am (0100 GMT) at San Jose National High School in Leyte province's Tacloban City.
A video widely circulated by local media, verified by AFP, showed panicked children screaming and crying while hiding inside a classroom amid the sound of gunfire.
"We are hearing bullying was the motive behind their actions, but we have yet to ask them," she said of the ongoing questioning of the boys arrested in the shooting's aftermath.
